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Trump announces U.S. military strikes in Syria
Fox News.com ^ | April 13, 2018 | Matt Richardson

Posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:18 PM PDT by Kaslin

President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The decision follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.

The United States launched the response, along with assurance from France and the United Kingdom, Trump stated.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation is currently targeting the "clandestine chemical arsenal" in Syria.

"This evening I have authorized British armed forces to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian Regime’s chemical weapons capability and deter their use," British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement.

Trump's announcement immediately preceded reports of loud explosions lighting up the sky in Damascus. Syrian TV reported that Syrian air defenses have responded to the U.S.-British-French attack.

Trump said the U.S. is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons. It wasn't immediately clear whether Trump meant the allied military operation would extend beyond the initial nighttime round of missile strikes.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria
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1 posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
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“Proof? We ain’t got no proof! We don’t need no proof! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ proof!”


2 posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:54 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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This guy is killing himself with the Tweets I’m afraid.


3 posted on 04/13/2018 7:19:37 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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Screw you, and the whore you rode in on, buttwipe boy.


5 posted on 04/13/2018 7:22:49 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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6 posted on 04/13/2018 7:23:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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Trump pulls a Hillary move . Who’d have thunk it ?


7 posted on 04/13/2018 7:24:52 PM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: House Atreides; Kaslin
"To Iran and to Russia I ask, what kind of nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children," Trump said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation is currently targeting the "clandestine chemical arsenal" in Syria.

If you blow up a Chemical weapon arsenal what are the chances that ‘innocent men, women and children’ will be killed in the process?

If by this process we bring down Assad what kind of Islamic regime will replace him?

Assad has a history of protecting Christians I am with Putin, let’s keep Assad.

8 posted on 04/13/2018 7:25:05 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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Bye Don.


9 posted on 04/13/2018 7:27:53 PM PDT by KingLudd
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10 posted on 04/13/2018 7:27:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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12 posted on 04/13/2018 7:30:17 PM PDT by gaijin
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What is Trump doing about the Turk’s genoocide of the Kurds in Syria?


13 posted on 04/13/2018 7:31:32 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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I was a duped supporter. Now im pissed.


14 posted on 04/13/2018 7:32:41 PM PDT by raiderboy (Three generations of our poorly educated have no ability to think.)
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How is that our problem?

Our emotional attachment to the horrors of the world has to stop. We cannot fix them all.


15 posted on 04/13/2018 7:34:03 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Trump is continuing the Soros arab spring.


16 posted on 04/13/2018 7:34:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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17 posted on 04/13/2018 7:34:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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Incomprehensible.

Where is the verifiable evidence?

Where is the logical explanation for Assad doing this?


18 posted on 04/13/2018 7:35:48 PM PDT by zeestephen
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I am done with laura Ingram!!!!!!
How dare she!!


19 posted on 04/13/2018 7:35:56 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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I am done with laura Ingram!!!!!!
How dare she!!


20 posted on 04/13/2018 7:37:38 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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